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Written Question
Accident and Emergency Departments: Closures
Monday 24th February 2025

Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many A&E Departments have permanently closed since 2010; and if he will list them.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The information requested is not held centrally.


Scottish Government Publication (FOI/EIR release)

Nov. 21 2024

Source Page: Health Secretary briefings on Accident & Emergency performance and Investment: FOI release
Document: FOI 202400436087 - Information Released - Annex (PDF)

Found: Departments and departments that provide Accident and Emergency (A&E) services have submitted data


Commons Chamber
Department for Business and Trade - Wed 05 Mar 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North) to hundreds and hundreds of businesses up and down the country, to trade unionists and to consumer groups - Speech Link
2: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North) Departments, and we would ask those Ministers how they were working together to deliver a joined-up - Speech Link
3: Gregor Poynton (Lab - Livingston) Economic prosperity does not happen by accident; it takes businesses, business leaders and workers. - Speech Link
4: Amanda Martin (Lab - Portsmouth North) are unique and we need a strategy and action. - Speech Link
5: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) He will be pleased to know that I have been meeting colleagues from other Departments, and particularly - Speech Link


Deposited Papers

Nov. 22 2007

Source Page: Pandemic flu: a national framework for responding to an influenza pandemic. 141 p.
Document: DEP2007-0135.pdf (PDF)

Found: departments and is intended to replace those documents.


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 19 Dec 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Jesse Norman (Con - Hereford and South Herefordshire) they may be, and of the emergency services that protect us all the year round, but especially over the - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) to really galvanise all the different Departments and places across the country, and Secretaries of - Speech Link
3: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) and to spread myth and disinformation, and these are issues that we should be very alive to. - Speech Link
4: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) higher, and outcomes getting worse and worse. - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Portfolio Question Time - Wed 29 May 2024

Mentions:
1: Sweeney, Paul (Lab - Glasgow) Waiting times in accident and emergency departments in Glasgow have been the worst on record this year - Speech Link
2: Gray, Neil (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) and emergency departments—if they do not need to be there—through the flow navigation centres that we - Speech Link
3: Gray, Neil (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) , when necessary, scheduled appointments at accident and emergency for care that is not deemed to be - Speech Link


Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Maritime and Coastguard Agency

Apr. 15 2025

Source Page: A guide to good practice on port and marine facilities
Document: (PDF)

Found: Part 1 of the Act (and supporting Regulations and statutory guidance on emergency preparedness) sets


Commons Chamber
Access to Primary Healthcare - Wed 16 Oct 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) everyone needing urgent and emergency care.It is a real honour to open this debate on the Liberal Democrats - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) make full speeches.We have called for a guarantee for urgent and emergency dental care. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) Between April 2015 and June 2024, there was a net loss of 1,200 community pharmacies—1,402 closures and - Speech Link
4: Joshua Reynolds (LD - Maidenhead) St Mark’s will mean fewer people in accident and emergency, saving hospital admissions, freeing up beds - Speech Link


Deposited Papers
Cabinet Office

Dec. 17 2007

Source Page: Learning lessons from the 2007 floods: an independent review by Michael Pitt: interim report. 165 p.
Document: DEP2007-0369.pdf (PDF)

Found: help in flood risk management and emergency planning and could also support emergency responders.


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Budget (Scotland) (No 4) Bill - Tue 25 Feb 2025

Mentions:
1: Marra, Michael (Lab - North East Scotland) We will set out key affordability and feasibility tests across all Scottish Government departments and - Speech Link
2: Greer, Ross (Green - West Scotland) The first was on tackling the climate and nature emergency. - Speech Link
3: Greer, Ross (Green - West Scotland) proposed library closures, and those proposals have been withdrawn as part of the council’s budget-setting - Speech Link
4: Boyack, Sarah (Lab - Lothian) buildings.We need investment and support for our colleges and access to funding and support for small - Speech Link
5: Gulhane, Sandesh (Con - Glasgow) and emergency department is overwhelmed and GP surgeries are struggling to cope with rising demand. - Speech Link